The Mozart Myths
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The Mozart Myths
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Author : William Stafford
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1993-10-01
The Mozart Myths written by William Stafford and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is an ambitious attempt to separate what is actually known (and can be known) about Mozart from the many myths and legends that have grown up about his life and character, notably the circumstances of his death and his alleged immaturity, drinking, extravagance, womanizing, unreliability, and professional failure.
Mozart
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Author : Roye E. Wates
language : en
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Release Date : 2010
Mozart written by Roye E. Wates and has been published by Amadeus Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Performing Arts categories.
(Amadeus). Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths explores in detail 20 of the composer's major works in the context of his tragically brief life and the turbulent times in which he lived. Addressed to non-musicians seeking to deepen their technical appreciation for his music while learning more about Mozart the man than the caricature portrayed in the 1986 movie Amadeus , this book offers extensive biographical and historical background debunking many well-established Mozart myths along with guided study of compositions representing every genre of 18th-century music: opera, concerto, symphony, church music, divertimento and serenade, sonata, and string quartet. Author Roye E. Wates, a Mozart specialist, has taught music history to thousands of non-musicians, both undergraduates and adults, as a Professor of Music at Boston University and from 2002-2004 as director of Boston University's Adult Music Seminar at Tanglewood, summer residence of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths provides a unique combination of biographical detail, up-to-date research, detailed musical analyses, and clear definitions of terms. Amateurs as well as more advanced musicians will gain a greater understanding of Mozart's encyclopedic mastery.
Don Giovanni Mozart Da Ponte From Legend To Myth
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Author : Luca Andrea Giordano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-03
Don Giovanni Mozart Da Ponte From Legend To Myth written by Luca Andrea Giordano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-03 with Music categories.
One of the most used and abused myths in literature, music, and art in general - and even common discourse - is without doubt that of Don Juan. Revised countless times by diverse artistic personalities, and originating in popular legend, Don Juan was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630), attributed to the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina. Through a literary selection composed by the most significant accounts, one participates in a parable in which the myth starts from a seventeenth century conception (in which those who violate the law are condemned), passes to a romantic one in which those who transgress are self-conscious at the same time, and finally funnels through the dawn of the twentieth century (in which the rebellion against social laws is seen as normal). Ethical individualism becomes a tragic but necessary choice - to finally arrive at the mythical contemporary interpretation in which the hero rejects the bourgeois values of society preferring geometric abstraction or neurosis to the real and sensitive universe. However, it is in the transposition to music that the myth of the impertinent libertine acquires a unique fascination, because it has sprung from the familiar, sensual and mysterious fusion of such seemingly different languages but which in substance create, in complete unison, the trait d'union between the living being and the sublime. From the seventeenth century onwards, there are many works inspired by this character, including opera and dance. Without a doubt, the most known work comes from the exceptional nature of the Mozart-Da Ponte. The present work, inspired by some critical reflections, deals with the meeting between an extraordinarily malleable myth, a composer and a librettist capable of recognizing, and lifting to unthinkable heights, the symbolic components of the ancient legend, sealing a unique alchemy able to transmit even the smallest nuances of human nature.
The Mozart Effect
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Author : Emily Liao
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Mozart
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
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Mozart The Construction Of A Genius
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Author : Luca Bianchini Anna Trombetta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Mozart The Construction Of A Genius written by Luca Bianchini Anna Trombetta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Music categories.
This enlightening volume deciphers the myriad of myths enshrouding Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, shedding light on how portrayals of his genius have been manipulated for diverse purposes. It explores the transition of Mozart's image from a means to mitigate Constanze's financial distress to a representation of national valour and, subsequently, a commercial label, demonstrating how his myth has morphed through the ages.What dynamics post-1791 contributed to the moulding of Mozart's lasting myth? This pivotal work by scholars Luca Bianchini and Anna Trombetta delves into biographical facts, musical compositions, and pertinent writings to unveil a disconcerting reality: the esteemed Mozart's Thematic Catalogue, spanning February 9th, 1784, to November 15th, 1791, is an intricate forgery from the late 18th century.This revelation is corroborated by the scholarly paper 'A Questionable Catalogue', presented by the authors in October 2023 at the 21st International Conference of the Graphonomics Society at the University of Évora, Portugal."I am delighted that our research has provided evidence to support the proposition, made by Luca Bianchini and Anna Trombetta, that the Thematic Catalogue is not what it purports to be; we have concluded that it is a counterfeit document." - Professor Martin Jarvis.
Mozart
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Author : Jan Swafford
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2020-12-01
Mozart written by Jan Swafford and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Music categories.
From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a child, the neglect, the pauper's grave. None of these myths are true, at least not at face value. Wolfgang Amadè Mozart is not primarily a myth-busting book, but in the process of bringing to vivid life the man and composer absorbed in writing for his public rather than for posterity, the myths topple en route. Swafford portrays a man who had his sorrows like everybody else, but who was a high-spirited, high-living bon vivant fond of games of skill, well-read and thoughtful if also at times playing the clown: in the end fundamentally a happy and happily married man who had a wide circle of friends.
Don Giovanni Captured
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Author : Richard Will
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-06-14
Don Giovanni Captured written by Richard Will and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with Music categories.
“Don Giovanni” Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance. Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critique—an increasing effort on the part of performers and directors to highlight the violence and predatoriness of the libertine central character, alongside the suffering and resilience of his female victims. In “Don Giovanni” Captured, Richard Will sets out to analyze more than a century’s worth of recorded performances of the opera, tracing the ways it has changed from one performance to another and from one generation to the next. Will consults audio recordings, starting with wax cylinders and 78s, as well as video recordings, including DVDs, films, and streaming videos. As Will argues, recordings and other media shape our experience of opera as much as live performance does. Seen as a historical record, opera recordings are also a potent reminder of the refusal of works such as Don Giovanni to sit still. By choosing a work with such a rich and complex tradition of interpretation, Will helps us see Don Giovanni as a standard-bearer for evolving ideas about desire and power, both on and off the stage.
Mozart In Vienna 1781 1791
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Author : Volkmar Braunbehrens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Mozart In Vienna 1781 1791 written by Volkmar Braunbehrens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Composers categories.
The Mozart Family
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Author : Ruth Halliwell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Mozart Family written by Ruth Halliwell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The family into which Mozart was born has never received a rigorous contextual study which does justice to the complexity of its relationships or to its interactions with colleagues, friends, and neighbours in Mozarts native city, Salzburg. Most biographies of Mozart have undervalued the manypassages in the rich family correspondence which do not bear directly on him. This book draws on the neglected material, most of which has never been translated into English. At the heart of the work is a detailed examination of the letters, supplemented by little-known archival material from thepapers of the Berchtold family, into which Mozarts sister Nannerl married. Additional information concerning Salzburg's local history, especially the working conditions at court and the provision for dependants of court employees, enables the hopes, expectations, and fears of the Mozarts to belocated in the context of the social conditions there. As well as providing a sympathetic account of the other members of the family, all of whom were profoundly affected by the experience of sharing their lives with Mozart, this approach gives new significance to the events of Mozart's life; notonly are they set against the background of his familys expectations of him, but the ways in which the source material has to be used for this purpose necessarily involves fundamental improvements in its interpretation. Ruth Halliwell challenges most previous views of the characters in Mozart's family (especially of his father, Leopold), and of the relationships within it. She also introduces a wealth of characters from the Mozarts's circle in Salzburg, from chambermaids to princes, and demonstrates the relevanceof the gossip stories the Mozarts told about them to the larger outlook of the members of the family. In an important final section, Halliwell traces the roles of Nannerl and Mozart's wife Constanze in using, controlling, and handing on the biographical source material after Mozarts death. She discusses their dealings with publishers such as Breitkopf and Hartel, and with the authors of theearliest biographies of Mozart. This complex topic here receives an account which not only illuminates the characters of both women and the relations between them, but also addresses the question of how myths were able to creep into the Mozartian biography at so early a stage and take tenacioushold.